The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24
SOUTHERN eLEANINos.


/ ing his name to certificate of pro6cien
/ cy, which procured for him a school at
/ Oconec
| Another enterprise for the South, the
/ Decatur (Ala.) Wire Fence Machine Com.
pany, has been organized with a capital
/ stock of S25, 600. It will give employment
/ to some thirty-five men. The Land COM
/ pany at Decatur has sold at private sale,
recently, S295, 900 worth of business prop
erty. The lots were sold at from $50 to
4 $40 per front foot. The price received for
/ the twelve acres is more than half as
4 much as the Land company paid for the
! ffty-six acres of town lands owned by
/ them.
A severe hail-storm, accompanied with
4 lightning, passed over Somerville, Tenn,
! a few days ago. Serious damage was
/ done to crops, and w. H Boyd, prom
/ inent colored politician of Fayette County,
/ was instantly killed by lightning. The
/ bolt struck cabin in which he, together
! with his son, had taken refuge. The
! child was stunned, but soon recovered.
4 Boyd was the Repu blican candidate for
/ Representative from Fayette County at
| the last election, but was defeated.
/ h Fl. Robertson, aged twenty one
! years, in the employ of the Western Un-
/ ion Telegraph Company, at Memphis,
4 Tenn, and detailed to aid the construction
I corps, was killed few days ago by fall
| ing from moving train.
I Near Corbin, KY, a few days ago, John
/ Toomey, a resident of Lexington, W hile
/ guarding convicts on the Louisville South
ern, accidently shot himself dying in.
! stantly
! A copperhead snake bit farmer VIM.
| Winters of Davidson County, Tenn, on
/ the hand a few days ago while he was
/ planting sweet potato slips and killed
him. He suffered intensely, his body
/ swelling to twice it's natural size.
| TIE m hal of Wau0as b0FO ia re.
| Gently killed eleven moccasin snakes
| with his revolver. but the reptiles still
/ kept coming forw ard from under the logs
| in such numbers that he was forced to re-
| treat The marshal is said to be man
/ of veracity and wholly temperate.
/ A tanner at GAINESVILLE, Ga., is shipping
/ large quantities of un finished leather to
Boston, because, while he can tan the
/ leather much cheaper than it can be done
/ in Massachusetts, it can be finished bet
ter and cheaper there, owing to the use
| of improved machinery.
Six wagOn-loads of gambling parapher-
MALTA, confiscat3d by the police, were
/ publicly burned at Atlanta, Ga, few
| days ago. The value of the stuff is
| placed at 0,O00, and the gamblers
/ threaten to sue the city for damages.
! Near Macon, Ga, there is mule with
| an artificial throat He was sick with
/ something like aryngitis, and the veteri-
y II
/ be impossible for the animal to breathe
through his windpipe, a portion of the
! pipe was removed and a silver tube was
] inserted, and now the mule breathes
! freely.
/ Craig Tolliver, the most notorious des-
! perado now living in kentucky. has had
himself elected to a judgeship in Rowsn
| County. Nobody could be found with
nerve enough to vote against him, and so
Craig will mount the woolsack after hav-
ing murdered a score of people and hav-
! ing been indicted for nearly all the
crimes known to the statutes.
/ Reports from Calhoun County, Fla,
state that an epidemic of rabies among
dogs and cattle prevails there. Several
/ persons, it is said, have been bitten by the
rabid dogs. Much excitement prevails in
the county, and dog and cattle-killing par
. ties are organizing.
A duel with razors occurred near Wood
rug, s. C., a few days ago. The principals
were two dusky Amazons, and the cause
was a mutual sweetheart whose entire
affections were claimed by both. The
women fought until they succum bed from
exhaustion, caused by loss of blood. Both
received serious and perhaps fatal
( wounds. They fought with keen razors,
! which were skillfully manipulated.
/ There have been total of TWEEN ty-nine
cases of yellow fever at Key West, Fla,
1 up to present writing. The sickness has
been confined to the class of mechanics
! who f1ocked there after the fire. Many Of
/ them are dissipated and have not saved
/ enough to get away with If the Beard
! of Health could send fifty of these pc eople
/ to New York at cost of about 81 00O,
| nothing more, it is thought, would be
heard of yellow fever there.
Banks Hill and G. d. Little, young men
belonging to the best families in Macon,
| Ga, went outside the city limits to fight
| n 67Yai n foN hot
the pistols were not loaded with bullets,
| but Hill took the matter seriously aud
| bravely went throug gh. Two shots were
| fired when Little fell, and Hill wanted a
pistol to kill himself. He was then told
of the joke. On their return to the city
both men shook hands and are now
/ friends.
An illicit still was captured a few
/ nights ago near Admission, Ala, in Horse
Gap mountains. Five hundred gallons Of
beer were destroyed. The still was a
/ homemade affair, with a capacity of
| about six gallons per day. The capture
was made by United States Deputy Mar
| shal Beets. Reuben II. Burden, the dis.
| tilIer, was brought before Commissioner
| Jeffers, pleaded guilty as charged, and
4 was held to answer before the Septem-
ber term of the United States Court, in
Birmingham. Defendant is q rough, lily
| clad, barefooted man, looks like he had
never been among civilized people, and
says he has been carrying on the business
/ ten years.
A few days ago, while V. H. Tillery and
| his brother-in-law, a Mr.. Grisworld, were
returning to Greenville, Miss, from
/ Florida, the county seat of East Carroll
| Parish, La, they were suddenly fired upon
! by several parties in ambush. Tillery
/ was riddled with bullets, and died in
stantly. The mule which Girls world rode
was shot and singularly protected its
| rider, who escaped without injury. It is
1 believed that the murderers belong to the
/ same brigade who some months ago muir
dered Major John McDay and his cook and
afterward cremated them in their house;
| also burned a great many residences and
| fences on plantations owned by S. Will
| kowski, and lynched a colored man
named Good win and woman near Floyd,
| in the last thirty days.
| Yellow fever continues in Florida.
John HANK, white, and John Crawford,
colored, esca ped from the jail at Danville,
KY, few nights ago. The former was
/ held without bail on a case against him
so strong that he would have hung or
! gone to the penitentiary for life. Craw-
/ ford was confined for malicious shooting
| A cyclone passed through a section of
/ Mcdowell County, n. c., a few days ago,
/ demolishing every thing in its path. 1t
| wrecked the houses Of Mrs. Bette Falker,
I Leander Fisher and Buck Fallzner. Under
/ the former, Mrs Falxer, her two daugh-
/ ters and Julia Gallon were fastened in the
| debris. They were all badly hurt, Mrs
/ Falker's infaries being dangerous.
Mrs. A. ealazerbrook fell out of a win
dow at Louisville, KY, and was killed.
The famous Daniel Dickson will case
/ was decided at Atlanta, Ga, few days
/ since by the State Supreme Court in favor
of Amanda Eubanks, the colored legatee.
Amanda Eubanks was an iuegItimate
daughter Of Dickson When dying he
willed her s401, 900. A contest OF the win
thus made is what the Supreme Court